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Flora in Beja Lexicon

Folia Orientalia, 2021
In the present contribution the Beja botanical terminology is analyzed from the point of view of semantic motivation. The study is limited only to the unborrowed part of the botanical lexicon (with some exceptions), together 76 terms. First 51 terms are
Václav Blažek
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Beja Kinship and Social Terminology

Folia Orientalia
The contribution concentrates on the kinship terminology in Beja, the only representative of the North Cushitic branch of Afroasiatic languages. The first aim is a summarisation of all relevant lexical data including all dialects and from all available ...
Václav Blažek
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Emergenz und Genese der Tonalität im Tschadischen: Ein Beitrag zur Sprachgeschichte Nordostafrikas

Folia Orientalia
The Chadic languages, numbering approximately 150 and spoken in central Sudan, did not—as members of the Afroasiatic phylum—originally dispose and make use of the structural feature of tonality.
Herrmann Jungraithmayr
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Convergence and secondary entropy in a macrodiachronic perspective

TIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage, 2021
The theory of secondary convergence and entropy has had interesting results in the comparative linguistics of Semitic languages, as in the studies of Lutz Edzard who analyzed the secondary convergence between various Semitic languages once they were ...
Cyril Aslanov
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Rescaffolding the bundle in Afroasiatic inflection

Brill's Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics, 2023
Abstract Person, number and gender features in the Afroasiatic verbal system are sometimes prefixes, sometimes suffixes and sometimes both. This paper attempts to derive the Tamazight and Hebrew systems using syntactic tools and eschewing postsyntactic or morphological linearization rules.
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Time to Proficiency in Young English Learners and Factors That Affect Progress

TESOL Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 2, Page 695-729, June 2025.
Abstract We investigated the time it takes 54,146 English learners (ELs) to attain English proficiency as they progressed from age 5 to 11 on average (Kindergarten through fifth grade in the United States). We also examine to what extent the time‐to‐proficiency estimate is affected by child‐internal and child‐external factors, including primary ...
Xiaowan Zhang, Paula Winke
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An Excerpt from the ‘Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of Beja: Natural Phenomena, Time and Geographical Terminology’

Folia Orientalia
The contribution summarises the Beja lexicon connected with natural phenomena, including astronomical, temporal, and geographical terminology. Every lexeme is documented in available sources and etymologized in areal or genealogical perspectives.
Václav Blažek
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Aspects of Northern Mao Phonology

Linguistic Discovery, 2009
In general terms, the phonology of Omotic languages has received little attention. This paper presents core phonological properties of on Omotic language, Norther Mao.
Michael Ahland
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THE ARABIC NUMERALS AS A CATEGORY OF THE CERTAIN QUANTITY

Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2020
Purpose. The paper deals with the lexical and grammatical analysis of numeral in Arabic (the Afroasiatic language family). The cardinal, ordinal and fractional numerals are under investigation. Numerals, expressing the exact number, are considered in the
Nailya Gabdelkhamitovna Mingazova
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Word Forms Reflect Trade‐Offs Between Speaker Effort and Robust Listener Recognition

Cognitive Science, Volume 48, Issue 7, July 2024.
Abstract How do cognitive pressures shape the lexicons of natural languages? Here, we reframe George Kingsley Zipf's proposed “law of abbreviation” within a more general framework that relates it to cognitive pressures that affect speakers and listeners.
Stephan C. Meylan, Thomas L. Griffiths
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